Theme (WordPress)

In WordPress, a theme provides presentation and style rules for the WordPress content.

Description

A theme is a set of files which tells WordPress how to display content from the WordPress database.

A theme contains one or more WordPress template files.

Using themes

See Using themes Using themes @ codes.wordpress.org.

Standard themes

Several standard themes are included with WordPress.

Downloading new themes

Thousands of free and commercial themes are available.

Child themes

A child themes overrides properties of a parent themes.

This is useful for modifying an existing theme.

See WordPress child theme.

Custom themes

Custom themes allow you to make WordPress sites than look like anything.

Any web page which you can make in HTML (and CSS, and JavaScript), you can make a theme which looks and acts the same.

A custom theme combines your HTML with the necessary WordPress-related PHP.

Much of this PHP can be implemented by beginners using copy-and-paste.

Requirements include:

• Some specifici knowledge about the structure of WordPress themes and templates
  • Online documentation is available

See Theme development @ codex.wordpress.org

See also

• WordPress custom theme examples
• Extensibility
• WordPress
• WordPress child theme
• WordPress template

External links

• Theme development @ codex.wordpress.org
• How to create a basic WordPress theme?
• Ultimate WordPress theme tutorial
• Making the Perfect WordPress theme @ code.tutsplus.com